Goodness

There are a lot of good verses today. I think it would be redundant to comment on all of them, so I think I will just write some of them.

One comment I will make is about labor. Sunday, my pastor said something about references to birth pains in the Bible and I've been thinking about it a lot since. In this passage, birth pains is mentioned a lot. Birth pains are the punishment of Eve. However, what comes at the end of birth pains? A baby! The best miracle I can think of! I think it's interesting that the Lord is predicting sorrow and anguish like a woman in labor upon all of these nations. They are being punished, but after the punishment, comes new life?

Jeremiah 49-50

"In those days and in that time, declares the Lord, the people of Israel and the people of Judah shall come together, weeping as they come, and they shall seek the Lord their God. The shall ask the way to Zion, with faces turned toward it, saying, 'Come, let us join ourselves to the Lord in an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.'" 50:4

"In those days and in that time, declares the Lord, iniquity shall be sought in Israel, and there shall be none, and sin in Judah, and none shall be found, for I will pardon those who I leave as a remnant." 50:20

"I will appoint over her whomever I choose. For who is like me? Who will summon me? What shepherd can stand before me?" 50:44

Not one Lord, not one!!